Invisible unit, submarine bug in GOTM?

[Markus5]

Is there an invisible unit or submarine bug in GOTM? Without warning, I'm at war. The war declaration is silent. When the bad guys started marching up after me, I checked and was at war. I rewound the game and replayed the steps and found that moving a new battleship out of a city into an empty sea square caused a silent declaration of war. There was no popup. I didn't have subs.

I've seen the error when moving a ship to a blank square you get a message saying "Are you sure.. This will cause war.." I can live with that.

This was completely silent.

This is Civ3 1.29f with the GOTM mods installed to play GOTM38.

(I posted a version of this question on the General Discussions Quick Questions forum, too.)

 

[AlanH]

Are you sure this didn't have some other cause? I have discovered I was at war once before because I had a peace treaty linked to a lux deal. The trade route failed through no fault of my own, and I discovered I was at war with no declaration. This was before the industrial era, so no subs. Since then I avoid mixing peace deals with lux or resource trades.

 

[Xerol]

The sub bug is well-known; if you have a ship that you've used Go-To with and it runs across a submarine it will just attack without warning, and if you're not paying attention between turns you could end up at war without knowing it.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Actuall, the "Sub-Bug" is something different; it's the AI not being able to avoid running into a Sub in C3C (the Human gets asked "This would mean War! Are you sure...?").

 

[Markus5]

Thinkng back, it could be almost anything, I guess. I've had silent declarations of war seemingly linked to a ROP deal with an AI. There wasn't a MPP or alliance, but only the ROP. Again, re-thinking, there could have been a lux involved in that deal, and the lux disappeared. I've been wary of ROP deals since.

Well, what ever it was, it made me change my habits. Now, I always make a pass thru the advisor screens every turn.

 

[Hannabir]

Is there an invisible unit or submarine bug in GOTM? Without warning, I'm at war. The war declaration is silent. When the bad guys started marching up after me, I checked and was at war. I rewound the game and replayed the steps and found that moving a new battleship out of a city into an empty sea square caused a silent declaration of war. There was no popup. I didn't have subs.

I've seen the error when moving a ship to a blank square you get a message saying "Are you sure.. This will cause war.." I can live with that.

This was completely silent.

I've had the same happen in one of my first games, and I've seen others report it, too.

 

[Chieftess]

It's one of the most-known bugs in C3C. If you look in the C3C bugs section, you'll find the current bugs that the game has.

 

[AlanH]

It's one of the most-known bugs in C3C. If you look in the C3C bugs section, you'll find the current bugs that the game has.

But this was vanilla, not C3C.